Biting Cold

Nearly three years later, Chen Fei came to the Ruan Family of Qin Hai City once again. Quite a few people in the Ruan Family had already begun to show signs of age. After all, three years was no short span of time for anyone.

Only someone like Chen Fei, whose cultivation had reached the Aperture Refining Realm and whose lifespan extended to two hundred years, showed no trace of time upon his face.

"Senior Chen."

Ruan Qiaojun looked at Chen Fei with a radiant smile on her face. After three years apart, she had shed her youthful immaturity and gained some of the valiant bearing of one who held authority.

Ruan Donglai stood behind her. Over the past few years, it was not as though he had never considered seizing power. After all, the Ruan Family possessed such vast holdings and had so many interests entangled within them.

If he could grasp them in his own hands, the benefits that eventually fell into his possession would multiply severalfold.

Yet in the end, Ruan Donglai had not dared to do so. The reason was simple: Chen Fei, an Aperture Refining Realm expert.

Ruan Donglai was uncertain what exactly the relationship between Ruan Qiaojun and Chen Fei was, nor did he know when Chen Fei might return to the Ruan Family.

If Chen Fei saw that the Ruan Family's head had been replaced by then, would he fly into thunderous rage? The Ruan Family was a great clan in Qin Hai City, but before the fury of an Aperture Refining Realm cultivator, there was truly very little room for resistance.

Ruan Donglai could naturally try to curry favor with another Aperture Refining Realm cultivator to contend against Chen Fei, but ties with such experts were not so easily forged.

More importantly,